N’Golo Kante Biography, Wife, Car, FIFA 19, Height, Injury and News

N’Golo Kante Biography

N’Golo Kante is a French professional footballer who plays for Premier League club Chelsea and the France national team as a defensive midfielder. He is considered the best midfielder in the world on current form.

He has played for Boulogne, a French association football club for which he made his senior debut and then spent two seasons at Caen, also a French football team, Ligue 1. He joined Leicester City in 2015, for a fee of £5.6 million and went on to become an integral member of the club’s first ever Premier League win in his only season at the club. He then joined Chelsea for a reported fee of £32 million the following year. At the English Premier League club, he won the league again in his first season.

He won the PFA Players’ Player of the Year and FWA Footballer of the Year as well as became the first outfield player to win back-to-back English league titles with different clubs since Eric Cantona in 1992 and 1993. In 2016, Kanté made his senior international debut for France. He was included in their squad that finished runners-up at that year’s European Championship. He was also a key contributor to his country’s win during the 2018 FIFA World Cup.

N’Golo Kante Age

He was born on 29 March 1991 in Paris, France. He is 27 years old as of 2018.

N’Golo Kante Parents | N’Golo Kante Family

Kante was born in Paris to Malian parents who had migrated to France in 1980 in search for a better life. The family lived in a small flat in Rueil-Malmaison, Hauts-de-Seine. He has three siblings: two brothers and a sister who are also private and modest like their star brother. As of 2017, his younger sister was in the youth system at Suresnes.

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N’Golo Kante Wife – N’Golo Kante and His Wife

Kante is an extremely private person especially when it comes to matters about his personal life. There has been no record of any relationship by the footballer neither has he ever talked of one hence, it is believed that he is single.

N’Golo Kante Leicester City

Kanté was scouted for Premier League club Leicester City by Steve Walsh, who had previously facilitated the transfers of Jamie Vardy and Riyad Mahrez to the team. On 3 August 2015, he joined Leicester on a four-year contract, for an undisclosed fee reported to be €8 million (£5.6 million).

He made his debut five days later by replacing Vardy for the final eight minutes of a 4–2 home win over Sunderland. On 7 November, he scored his first Premier League goal in a 2–1 home win against Watford.

He earned much praise and many plaudits for his consistently impressive displays for Leicester, and was widely considered to be a major factor in the club’s excellent form as they went on to win the Premier League, consistently making a high number of tackles and interceptions. In April, he was one of four Leicester players named in the PFA Team of the Year.

By the end of the season, Kanté had managed 175 tackles (31 more than any other player) and 157 interceptions (15 more than any other player), topping the defensive stats at the end of the 2015–16 Premier League season.

Kanté was the only key member of the squad to leave the club in the summer of 2016. His departure proved a major factor in Leicester’s sharp decline in form in the 2016–17 season, as the club was unable to find an equally skilled midfielder to replace him.

N’Golo Kante Car

N’Golo Kante Car

The Chelsea star prefers to drive a modest car unlike his Chelsea team-mates arriving in their luxury super-cars for training. A £20,000 Mini Cooper is one such car that Kante drives. He received it as a gift from someone when he arrived in England with very little money and no car. Even when he had an accident with the car on the King’s Road as he made his way to Stamford Bridge for Carabao Cup clash against Arsenal.

A fan who witnessed the accident told SunSport: “His wing mirror was smashed and his front wheel arch was all dented. “He must have been pretty annoyed but he was more than happy for fans to take selfies with him.”

Despite pocketing £120,000-a-week in west London, Kante still rocked up to training on the hit vehicle. The front-left wheel arch remained completely torn off the car, while his wing mirror was reattached with what appeared to be gaffer tape. Humble Kante picked up the second-hand Mini when he joined Leicester City in 2015.

He still refuses to spend big on a luxury motor. Kante explained: “I’ve never been someone who loves a car and when I was young I didn’t have the ambition of a car or something like that. “But my Mini, for the beginning, was good to learn to drive on the left. I got it in Leicester and I still have it now. But it’s good.”

N’Golo Kante Chelsea Shirt – Kante Chelsea Kit

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N’Golo Kante Injury

Season

Injury

Games missed

17/18

Circulation Problems

1

17/18

Hamstring Injury

6

15/16

Hamstring Injury

1

N’Golo Kante FIFA 19

His overall rating in FIFA 19 is 89 with a potential of 90. Kanté has got a 2-star skillmoves rating. He prefers to shoot with his right foot. His workrates are Medium / High. Kanté’s height is 168 cm and his weight is estimated at 68 kg according to FIFA’s database. Currently, N’Golo Kanté is playing with numbers 13 and 7. His best stats are: Stamina: 96, Reactions: 93, Interceptions: 92, Balance: 92, Stand Tackle: 91.

France

Chelsea

Specialities

Position LDM

Position RCM

Tackling

Kit Number 13

Kit Number 7

Tactician

Joined Club July 16, 2016

Traits

Contract Length 2023

Injury Free

Ball Skills

Defence

Mental

Passing

Physical

Shooting

Goalkeeper

Ball Control 80

Marking 90

Aggression 90

Crossing 68

Acceleration 82

Heading 54

GK Positioning 7

Dribbling 79

Slide Tackle 85

Reactions 93

Short Pass 86

Stamina 96

Shot Power 71

GK Diving 15

Stand Tackle 91

Att. Position 71

Long Pass 81

Strength 76

Finishing 65

GK Handling 12

Interceptions 92

Balance 92

Long Shots 69

GK Kicking 10

Vision 79

Sprint Speed 78

Curve 49

GK Reflexes 10

Composure 85

Agility 82

FK Acc. 49

Jumping 77

Penalties 54

Volleys 56

N’Golo Kante House

In 2013, Kante bought a Mansion for $1.36 million in his hometown Paris which is a major European city and global center for culture, art, fashion and gastronomy. The present value of the House around $2 Million Dollars.

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Chelsea are playing Kante in the wrong position – Ginola

The World Cup-winning midfielder was below-par as his team lost their Premier League unbeaten record at the hands of Spurs.

Chelsea manager Maurizio Sarri has been criticised by two former Premier League stars over his treatment of N’Golo Kante, who they believe is playing in the “wrong position”.

Kante has established himself as one of the world’s elite defensive midfielders in recent seasons, after bursting onto the scene with Leicester City.

Back-to-back Premier League titles with the Foxes and Chelsea cemented his reputation, while Kante also played a starring role in France’s World Cup win in 2018.

But he has been shunted out of position since the arrival of Jorginho from Napoli, Sarri’s former club.

Chelsea’s failings were laid bare in Saturday’s 3-1 defeat at the hands of Tottenham, and both Jamie Carragher and David Ginola focused on Kante’s woes.

“Jorginho will not move from that position. He is Sarri’s man and he has built his system around him. Kante’s not moving because he’s signed a massive contract,” Carragher explained to Sky Sports.

“Jorginho has been excellent this season, and teams are having to change their system and style to counteract Jorginho, so that shows how good a player he is and how important he has been to Chelsea.

“Kante is a very average player in the position he’s playing in now. I just see a normal midfield player. When he plays here (in Jorginho’s role) I see someone who is world-class.

“What do you do as a manager? For me, I don’t ever think this balance of the midfield looks right with Kovacic in there.

“It’s quite simple, and I’m not sure if Sarri is stuck on 4-3-3, but play them as a midfield two, and play Barkley or Willian in the No.10 role, so it’s more of a 4-2-3-1.”

Former Spurs and Newcastle United star Ginola went even further in his criticisms of Chelsea for misusing such a “quality” player.

“Kante in the French team plays right in the middle. When you have a quality player like Kante, you play him in the middle,” the Frenchman said of his compatriot.

“That is where he is best. For the French team he had a magnificent World Cup. We don’t talk much about N’Golo Kante because he’s very modest and very humble. I love him.

“If you take him away from the French team, it doesn’t look the same. This position in modern football is the key position. If I was a manager tomorrow my first thought would be ‘who is going to play this position?’.

“For me, Chelsea are wrong to play Kante in the position he is in. They are wrong. Kante in that position is not good.”

Saturday’s defeat saw Chelsea lose ground on Premier League pace-setters Manchester City and Liverpool, who both recorded easy wins at the weekend to remain unbeaten so far this league season.

The Blues, who surrendered their own unbeaten record to Spurs, now sit seven points behind City, while they also saw Tottenham leapfrog them into third.

Adopted from: goal.com

N’golo Kante: Where I Have Improved

Published: 10/2/2019

N’Golo Kante believes the Blues can go into today’s game between Chelsea and Manchester City with plenty of optimism.
The midfielder scored one of the goals as we became the first side to beat the Citizens this season thanks to a 2-0 victory at Stamford Bridge in December and, although he knows this is a completely different proposition, he says morale is high within our ranks.

‘It was an important game for us when we played them in December,’ he explained. ‘This will be another game, it will be difficult, but of course the last game gave us confidence that it is possible to win and I hope we’ll get a good result there.

‘It’s been a little bit difficult away from home in 2019, but we will try to get the result we want because we need to start to have many wins to keep the top four spot.’

N’Golo Kante says finishing in the Champions League qualification places is our immediate target, and a positive result at the Etihad Stadium will be the ideal boost as we look to recapture the consistency we displayed in the first few months of the season.